Jeffrey Ford
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The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
At times literary, at other times surreal, this collection offers an eclectic group of stories that deal with real-life conflicts, human values, and coming-of-age experiences…
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The Beyond
The ruins of the Well-Built City and the village of Wenau are not all the world has to offer-there is also the Beyond, a dark…
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The Girl in the Glass
The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair - and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the…
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The Drowned Life
There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry-and once a year a handful of citizens are selected…
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The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
A mysterious and richly evocative novel, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque tells the story of portraitist Piero Piambo, who is offered a commission unlike any…
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The Empire of Ice Cream
Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results-a young musician…
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The Shadow Year
In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of…
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A Natural History of Hell
Emily Dickinson takes a carriage ride with Death. A couple are invited over to a neighbor's daughter's exorcism. A country witch with a sea-captain's head…
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Memoranda
After beholding the destruction of the Well-Built City, physiognomist Cley is now a simple healer seeking peace and atonement in the happy village of survivors.…
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Crackpot Palace
Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford-along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His…
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The Physiognomy
In the Well-Built City, Master Drachton Below's power is absolute, and he will not hesitate to use it. His primary method of control is through…